The additional notes to the poem say that the Husband wants to bathe with his wife in the river like they used to do when they were in love. But the wife is not a good mood and she wont come. So our hero goes to his wife’s friend and talks to her loudly so that his wife can hear what he is saying. He describes the beauty of his wife when they used to have bath during their pre-martial days.

The Visual Imagery:

The Hair of the Thalaivi is compared to the feathers of the Peacock. The thalaivi is falling down from a Marutam tree into the pond/stream.

So our Heroine jumps from one such branch of a Marutam tree into the water below. The poet says that her hair while jumping into the water is like that of a peacock descending down from sky. So first to understand this comaprision we have to visualize how a peacocks feathers would really look like. So here are the pictures,